NASA's space station zero.

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  • Author(s): Easterbrook, Gregg
  • Source:
    Newsweek. 4/11/1994, Vol. 123 Issue 15, p30. 3p. 5 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      SPACE stations; UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
    • Abstract:
      States that although $11.9 billion has been spent on the space-station project, known as Ralpha, not a pound of finished hardware has been manufactured, much less placed into orbit. Suspicion that it exists primarily as a piece of space pork; Its proposal by President Ronald Reagan in 1984; Its goals; Its huge cost; Other ideas for affordable launchers.